Recent content by MLP_Freddie

Hi, which camera did you use on your helmet please?

************* I CAN CLIP MY PONY!!!!!! *********** I cannot believe the difference between now and barely two months-ish ago. There's still a little work to do with him (chin being one) but, OMG, I cannot believe how far he has come. Yesterday we spent one hour with the clippers...

Quick update then. Sessions are now up to ten minutes then I give him a break and some treats for being good. Can now get halfway up his neck and round his chest. Managed to clip a few hairs off his throat. Still a little funny around his front legs but think that might be related to...

Have recorded it. Want to watch it. But cannot stand CB

I cannot believe the difference a week makes. Fred will now tolerate the clippers for three minutes before the attitude kicks in. I still cannot get any closer to his head than his withers or base of his mane but I am sure it will eventually come. We spent today's sessions running the...

Somebody else on the yard suggested a grazing muzzle for him but again it came back to getting Fred to trust me enough to clip him. Even if I get to the stage where only I can clip him it will be a HUGE step forward. If I can get him to let me clip him it's still something I would do to him...

After yesterday's frustrations really didn't know if wanted to give today another go with the clippers but decided was best to. Not only did he stand there but let me run them up and down his body for twenty seconds whilst they were working. Managed to get from his bum to his withers. Then...

Update......******! Got him a bag of some really nice spearmint treats he adores. Plonked him, me and the clippers in the ménage so he had room to run away. After forty minutes got to the stage where I had my arm resting on his neck with the nicely-buzzing clippers resting on my arm (to...

Just a few things per comments from people: Summer coat - he hasn't got one yet!!! It's still buried under his winter coat. It's one of the reasons I want to clip him. Twitching - tried it. With and without sedation. Didn't work. He still flipped out when we went near him with the...

My little pony is an irish cob with a plank back. Getting a saddle to fit him is proving very difficult but I've heard that the new treeless saddles are very good for the broad backed beasts, so here's my questions: Do they stay in place??? (kind of VERY important) Do they still provide...

Fred (aka The Furry Beast) is a 14.1 hh irish cob gelding who currently looks like Manny the Mammoth from the ice age films. I want to get him fully clipped...as in feathers off, mane hogged...the whole kit and caboodle. The only problem is finding somebody to do it for me as I have never...

OMG - what a brilliant idea. I've been trying to work gold label louse powder into my cob's legs and generally end up with more over me than him.

1. Are you still in need of a yard? 2. Is Packington, near Ashby de la Zouch in the right area for you? H.

From Packington, nr Ashby de la Zouch to the Equine Referral Hospital, South Mymms, London on Sunday 24th March for 14.1 gelding. I know I could hire a box and drive him myself but I've got to leave him there for a couple of days I don't really think I will be in a fit state to drive home...

Hi. I too work shifts including 12 hour days/nights. I've found the nights aren't too bad as I can sort Fred between finishing work and going to bed. I normally make an arrangement with one of the other people on the yard that I'll sort their horse too in the morning then they sort both in...